The effects have been devastating.
In Freak Accident, 34 Katherine Heigl Films Released At Once
Month: March 2011
Random Acts
Random Acts: the pilots are taking over Chicago
Chicago’s rapidly becoming a town where TV shows want to shoot. It’s been a while since The Loop and Prison Break‘s first season shot there, but The Chicago Code‘s there right now and a couple of pilots are shooting there as well. Cooper and Stone, starring Alex Breckenridge and Vanessa Ferlito (one of the original stars of CSI: NY), is randomly annoying the Chicago neighbourhood of Ravenswood Manor:
“Go back to L.A.,” one resident complained
Meanwhile, The Playboy Club – NBC’s female-oriented answer to Mad Men that’s set in a 1960s Playboy club just as women’s lib and the Pill are about to hit the world – is currently giving the city a make-over. Eddie Cibrian (who, continuing the CSI theme, was in CSI: Miami for all of a season) is running around Chicago in a whole load of Jon Hamm’s cast-offs:
Since the show’s aimed at women much more than men, I imagine this will be happening a lot:
However, given the setting of the show and since Amber Heard’s in it, I imagine men* will want to watch it, too:
You may ask where randomness comes into this. Well, guess where Amber gets her style advice from:
Yes, well known Mad Men envier and Lucky magazine’s “old reliable“, Ali Larter.
I wonder if that’s why Amber took the role?
* And gay women, obviously:
First glimpse of Will Ferrell on The Office
Look who’s taken over from Steve Farrell (temporarily anyway) over on The Office.
Aaron Sorkin visits 30 Rock and, yes, Studio 60 gets mentioned
Last Thursday, little known writer Aaron Sorkin – you may have heard of him from The West Wing, The Social Network and Studio 60 – cameoed on something called 30 Rock, a somewhat similarly themed show about sketch comedy that debuted on NBC at the same time as Studio 60, resulting in just a tad of rivalry.
In case you missed it or have yet to see it and want to watch it now, here it’s the epic meeting between him and Tina Fey in a somewhat recognisable style.
News
Monday’s “Monty Python’s Flying Omens” news
Awards
- Results of the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Film
- Amy Adams to play Lois Lane in Superman reboot
- Trailer for The Three Musketeers
- Robert de Niro and Forest Whitaker to star in Freelancers
- Mila Kunis joins Oz, the Great and Powerful
- American Gods movie moves forward
Theatre
- Diana Rigg joins Pygmalion
British TV
- Women in Love gets 570,000 viewers + other ratings
- My Family axed
- BBC pension deficit only £1.6bn
- Phillip Glenister joins Undisclosed
- Terry Jones to adapt Good Omens
- The Indian Doctor and Land Girls get more series
US TV
- Tom Hanks to guest star on 30 Rock
- Katee Sackhoff to star in Longmire
- Fringe‘s ratings pick up
- Gale Harold joins The Secret Circle + other pilot casting
- Adrian Pasdar gets a pilot
- Maya Rudolph to star in NBC pilot
- FX developing conspiracy drama series with Oliver Stone
- Rena Sofer and Ben Lawson join Covert Affairs
- William Sadler and others to guest on White Collar
- David Ramsey joins Cooper and Stone
- Shohreh Aghdashloo to guest on House [minor spoilers]
- Andrew Dice Clay to guest on Entourage